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WALTER NAMED CACC ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AS ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS ANNOUNCED
March 20, 2025

WALTER NAMED CACC ROOKIE OF THE YEAR AS ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS ANNOUNCED

New Haven, Conn. (3/20/25) – Caldwell University senior Lauren Marks has been selected as the 2024-25 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Bowler of the Year. Marks, who was also named to the All-CACC Women's Bowling First Team, leads the all-conference teams and major award winners announced today by CACC Commissioner Dan Mara. The voting was conducted by the six head coaches of the conference schools that sponsor the sport.

Dominican University New York freshman Kyra Walter was voted the 2024-25 CACC Women's Bowling Rookie of the Year. Walter was also elected to the All-CACC First Team. Felician University head coach Rusty Thomsen repeated as Coach of the Year. Felician is also the winner of the 2024-25 Women's Bowling Team Sportsmanship Award.

Marks, from Parsippany, N.J., is the CACC Bowler of the Year for the second consecutive season. In 2024-25, she tops the conference in most major statistical categories, including scoring average per frame in traditional (20.63) and Baker (20.19) formats and overall (20.38). Marks also is the CACC's best in strike percentage (.506), first-ball average pinfall (9.06), and spare conversion percentage (.728). She has helped Caldwell to the No. 2 seed in this weekend's CACC Championship tournament.

Walter, of West Babylon, N.Y., assisted Dominican in reaching its first CACC Tournament. A six-time conference Rookie of the Week and two-time Bowler of the Week, she ranks fifth in the CACC, and first among rookies, with an overall frame average of 19.03. Her .438 strike percentage and her first-ball average pinfall of 8.95 also place her among the league's top five.

Dominican's Angelina Tati was named to the All-CACC Second Team.  She ranks sixth in the conference in scoring average per frame in overall (18.65) and Baker (18.67), while being eighth in traditional (18.62)

Thomsen, selected by the league's directors of athletics communications, guided Felician (72-32, 14-4 CACC) to its first CACC regular-season championship. The Golden Falcons are ranked No. 22 in the most recent national NCAA all-divisions coaches' poll.  

Felician also earned the annual CACC Team Sportsmanship Award as the coaches' choice for demonstrating class and character throughout the regular season.

The 2024-25 CACC women's bowling major award winners and all-conference teams are listed below.

 
2024-25 CACC BOWLER OF THE YEAR
Lauren Marks (Caldwell University)

2024-25 CACC BOWLING ROOKIE OF THE YEAR
Kyra Walter (Dominican University)

2024-25 CACC BOWLING COACH OF THE YEAR
Rusty Thomsen (Felician University)

2024-25 CACC BOWLING TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
Felician University

2024-25 CACC BOWLING ALL-CONFERENCE FIRST TEAM
Logan Brown (Wilmington University)
Mackenzie Keane (Felician University)
Vivian Luna (Felician University)
Lauren Marks (Caldwell University)
Kyra Walter (Dominican University)

2024-25 CACC BOWLING ALL-CONFERENCE SECOND TEAM
Ashley Ferrara (Felician University)
Sydney Jones (Wilmington University)
Alex Sardis (Caldwell University)
Samantha Slocum (Felician University)
Angelina Tati (Dominican University)

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.